Rookie Quarterbacks - Who is your preference?

Interesting times. Deion has already said he's going to have Shadeur pull an 'Eli' next year. Might Daniels and Maye be thinking they can try the same this year?

Washington was a cesspool for years. A proven culture of sexual harassment and cronyism. A new Owner and GM don't instantly erase over a dozen years of stench.

But there's also the 'How do I get my (son or client) to a Mahomes/Allen/Burrow 2nd Contract?'

Caleb Williams was rumored to be down on Chicago. But then they inked some more weapons and now he's publicly fine with going there.

The Commanders' cupboard isn't as empty as the Patriots, but it's not in the same stratosphere as what Minnesota provides. And Kingsbury is a recently failed HC/OC. Running a scheme in Air Raid which certainly hasn't been producing anywhere near the kind of success as the Shanahan/McVay scheme.

Wouldn't surprise me at all if neither kid wants to be in Washington and have made sure the Commanders know it.

I was wrong about all those QB visits being one after another. They were all there at the same time. Like a literal cattle call. Why Penix was even included is bizarre. I can see why Daniels camp has already floated that the situation left them with a bad taste in their collective mouths.

There's zero way, zero way that Washington didn't already know who they wanted. So what exactly was the point of having Maye and Daniels there at the same time as McCarthy and Penix? Some new New Age thing? Truly bizarre.

Could it be that they already knew that Drake and Jayden want no part of them? So they wanted to see how McCarthy, whom they could jump back up for, and Penix, whom they can get at #11, would react with sort of a hostile environment of all 4 there at once? While also sending up waves of smoke?

Just sayin'.....

I wouldn't be surprised if the Eli route is the wave of the future. It seems like it would be the next natural step where players and agents realize that part of the appalling failure rate of QB's drafted is that the dumpster fire organizations are drafting these kids to be superman on rosters that are complete crap.

I think the only reason it hasn't is because of the money aspect.

NIL along with rookie contracts play a part IMO. Since rookie contracts are lower you have to hit the 2nd contract to get the huge pay day so you want to put yourself in position to get it.

They could shake up the whole draft by taking Harrison at 2 and trading back up for Pennix

To further on the environment aspect. I was watching Purple Daily this morning and they pointed out the '99 draft.

4 QB's taken, really 5, but they didn't mention Cade McNown.

Tim Couch went to an expansion team with a roster built through an expansion draft. Akili Smith went to the Bengals during their dumpster fire rolling down a sewage river phase. McNabb and Culpepper went to quality organizations. Awful funny that the two who went places that had things relatively together had success and the two who went to football Siberia failed, 3 really because McNown was a bust too.

2017. Chicago in peak trash fire mode picks Mitch Trubisky. Mahomes ends up in KC with Andy Reid and a quality organization. Who failed and who succeeded? The guy who landed in a soft place.

That's not to say that Mahomes and Mith would have flipped career paths had it been flipped pick wise, but it does highlight that it's not just the player, it's the landing spot.

Every year it seems like this is not mentioned. This year it does seem to be something that the talking heads are pointing out. We'll see how much traction it gets and maintains going forward.

I see both sides of that point. By definition if you don't get number 1 you're settling to a certain degree. However, as you mentioned, this a weird year where there are three, maybe even 4 or more that would be the number 1 guy in many other drafts. It's a very abnormal draft class.